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• We are a UK based software development and service company serving researchers and research administration.
• We work in partnership with our clients to develop new features.
• We specialise in integrating systems, data and institutional platforms.
• We are vendor, open source community and data source agnostic
Who are Symplectic?
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14 of the top 25 universities worldwide now use Elements
Some of our more recent clients include:
56%
Preferred by high-prestige institutions
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Elements: a Research Information Management System
An implemented or hosted system which supports the automated capture, linking and reporting on of research and teaching activities at your institution:
• Person data • Research Outputs and Datasets • Grants • Professional & teaching activities • Equipment • & more…
A means of populating institutional repositories.
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Other integrations include ORCID
Elements uses persistent IDs to harvest quality metadata from verified data sources
Elements searches authenticated ORCID accounts for persistent IDs
CrossRef updates ORCID automatically with new records
Elements make captured works available for CVs, activity reports, profile pages, open networks and much more.
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Elements supports the population of institutional digital repositories. The automatic detection of files elsewhere on the web helps reduce the burden placed on academics.
Digital Repository Support
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• Define your own OA policy • Monitor and report on compliance with your policy
Open Access policy support
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Capture Impact
Capture short records of impact, including an emerging narrative
Link records of impact to other users, publications, grants and even other impacts.
Associate files/URLs/contacts with ‘Impacts’ as supporting evidence
Optionally create your own labels to categorise records of impact
• Select impact records in Assessment module
Commercial in confidence
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Support of research data Symplectic have partnered with figshare to provide a single point of entry for academics to deposit both research data and their full text.
Updates Elements with items added to figshare;Fellow institutional co-authors are linked;Grants are linked via funder identifiers.
Researcher uploads dataset to figshare for Institutions
Reporting to funders
Datasets included in CV and other reportsReusing the
data to display on public / open profiles
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Symplectic hosting services Why should you consider this?
o Significantly reduced implementation scheduleo Peace of mind. Let the team who know the product
best worry about keeping it online and backed upo Upgrades done for you, new features tested and
deployed earliero No need to maintain server infrastructure and
Microsoft licenceso No loss of features versus locally hosted solution
But what about the data?
o All data entered into any instance of Elements, whether hosted by us or by you belongs to you. Symplectic does not access or use your data for any purpose other than the provision of support
The only difference is the cost of hosting
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An academic user can import publications, control their search settings for harvested publications, create a CV, explore data in the system, view and edit their profile and manage their settings
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Local and system administrators have greater privileges, according to role assignment that you control
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A user can configure the search terms used to interrogate bibliographic data sources
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A user can manage which databases to harvest data from, and make specific configurations such as ORCiD and database IDs such as Scopus and ResearcherID
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A more detailed look at one of the outputs All sources of metadata are automatically harvested and disambiguated, then stored independently to maintain integrity Labels can be used for tagging and are automatically assigned Outputs are deposited directly from Elements into the repository
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A user can add esteem measures and other professional activities from a configurable list on their home page